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The Ecological Allowance of Enterprise: An Absolute Measure of Corporate Environmental Performance, its Implications for Strategy, and a Small Case

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: In order to determine the sustainable ecological scale of business activities, the measure ecological allowance is introduced in this contribution. Its main idea is that every enterprise “owns” a certain allowable ecological impact that can be calculated through relating impact and economic performance. This measure then enables the evaluation of absolute environmental performance of a business enterprise, compared to only relative measures as in most other approaches. The measure is explained and detailed with a case from the German automotive industry and complimented by a scenario analysis of different configurations of self-owned and carsharing cars, including technological and economic parameters.

Source: Journal of Environmental Sustainability

DOI: 10.14448/jes.01.0006

Authors: André Reiche, Barbara Seeberg

Institutions: Zeppelin Universität gemeinnützige GmbH, University of Stuttgart

Language: English

Topic: Environmental Sustainability in Business

Subfield: Marketing

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W1968124918

FWCI: 0.926

Cites: 35

Cited by: 24

Related to: 10